Finance and Tax Library Guide: Journals and Journal articles

UCT Libraries subscribes to a large number of print and/or electronic journals relevant to accounting. For specific articles use the journals page and for any articles on specific topics use databases. 

What is a journal?

• A journal is like an academic magazine where scholars have written articles about their research.

What is the difference between a book and a journal article?

• A book is a longer, and a usually more comprehensive text on a subject.
• Journal articles are shorter, and more specific. They are published more frequently and so have more up-to-date information than books do.

Why use journals?

• They are usually more up to date than books.
• As most of them have been checked by other academics (i.e. peer reviewed), they are more reliable than general web articles and newspaper articles.
• They are shorter to read than books.